by Flanagan McQueen November 1, 2006
Get the tranosaur mug.98/99 was trance's downfall from a production and creative level. The cheap gimmick of the build-breakdown-anthem was what allowed it to become so commercial and so successful.
Pure trance is very repetitive, unresponsive, hypnotic, and is an acquired taste.....the exact antithesis to the music that dominated the club scene in 98/99.
Thing is......people are stupid. They have neither the intelligence nor the patience nor the introspection to appreciate something like trance, so they virtually ignored it for most of its existence until trance developed these singalong melodies and flighty, ethereal orchestral chords.
Only when trance brought itself down to the level of the lowest-common denominator of music listeners did it become wildly popular on an unprecedented level. And like anything, it created a theme. A gimmick, in the form of shallow breakdowns and trite, limp anthems. And like any gimmick, it needed to be exploited, milked dry, chewed up and spat out. Trance producers became addicted to the insta-fame the new Anthem Trance gave them. A lot of them started making a very comfortable living, and they refused to go back........they refused to take risks, refused to innovate, refused to produce, succeed, and excel in music. They grew lazy and complacent. It was far easier, after all, to simply replicate the same song over and over again with the same template, with a few minor key changes. They churned out, instead, Pulp Trance, manufactured assembly line McTrance, commercial schlock intended for mass consumption.
The music, like breads and circuses, distracted the ignorant peons from what trance was supposed to be doing to them. They ate it all, of course. Like greedy little consumers, they swallowed the tra(sh)nce whole and asked for more, never thinking about the care or quality of the culture that once fostered it. Like a seed passing undigested through the body of a bird, they drifted in and out of the rave scene, devouring the products of trance but never thinking to enrich and strengthen the community; like parasites, they became docile spectators, free to engorge themselves on the superscene they're told to worship; never to participate, never to involve, never to self-actualize.
And then they proceeded to think that they were (and still are) somehow more cultured and evolved than the rest of society because they listen to this bumping underground trance music, unaware that trance is utilizing essentially the exact same tricks, techniques and sacharine schmaltz that they so loathed about the pop music world. Trance became instrumental pop music in 1998. That's why it became so popular.
Nothing "beautiful" or "magical" about that.
Pure trance is very repetitive, unresponsive, hypnotic, and is an acquired taste.....the exact antithesis to the music that dominated the club scene in 98/99.
Thing is......people are stupid. They have neither the intelligence nor the patience nor the introspection to appreciate something like trance, so they virtually ignored it for most of its existence until trance developed these singalong melodies and flighty, ethereal orchestral chords.
Only when trance brought itself down to the level of the lowest-common denominator of music listeners did it become wildly popular on an unprecedented level. And like anything, it created a theme. A gimmick, in the form of shallow breakdowns and trite, limp anthems. And like any gimmick, it needed to be exploited, milked dry, chewed up and spat out. Trance producers became addicted to the insta-fame the new Anthem Trance gave them. A lot of them started making a very comfortable living, and they refused to go back........they refused to take risks, refused to innovate, refused to produce, succeed, and excel in music. They grew lazy and complacent. It was far easier, after all, to simply replicate the same song over and over again with the same template, with a few minor key changes. They churned out, instead, Pulp Trance, manufactured assembly line McTrance, commercial schlock intended for mass consumption.
The music, like breads and circuses, distracted the ignorant peons from what trance was supposed to be doing to them. They ate it all, of course. Like greedy little consumers, they swallowed the tra(sh)nce whole and asked for more, never thinking about the care or quality of the culture that once fostered it. Like a seed passing undigested through the body of a bird, they drifted in and out of the rave scene, devouring the products of trance but never thinking to enrich and strengthen the community; like parasites, they became docile spectators, free to engorge themselves on the superscene they're told to worship; never to participate, never to involve, never to self-actualize.
And then they proceeded to think that they were (and still are) somehow more cultured and evolved than the rest of society because they listen to this bumping underground trance music, unaware that trance is utilizing essentially the exact same tricks, techniques and sacharine schmaltz that they so loathed about the pop music world. Trance became instrumental pop music in 1998. That's why it became so popular.
Nothing "beautiful" or "magical" about that.
by pseudonym November 8, 2004
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transcondescently
a adjective or adverb to put into an english paper that your teacher will never circle, in fear of looking like an idiot.
i used mine to describe "to descend to a level of deep passion." make it whatever you want.
a adjective or adverb to put into an english paper that your teacher will never circle, in fear of looking like an idiot.
i used mine to describe "to descend to a level of deep passion." make it whatever you want.
The only way for a poet to escape romantic failure is to transcondescently write from the heart, and express the deepest emotions a man has. - straight from my thesis paper.
by Matt S-W February 12, 2007
Get the transcondescent mug.A cyber or phone meeting between two people who are both simultaneously engaged in live sexual activity with two other people. The sexual energy from each couple adds to the arousal of the other couple.
by manshagmanshagman September 21, 2006
Get the Transcontinental Fourway mug.A combination of trance and fantastic.
Used to describe the most amazing Trance DJ set, song or event.
Used to describe the most amazing Trance DJ set, song or event.
Tiesto's set was Trancetastic!
by BOBtheDAZZLER March 3, 2009
Get the Trancetastic mug.Jeff: Hey Ben. Do you want to Trandofile tonight?
Ben: Absolutely! You bring the plastic wrap, I'll bring the alien costume...
Jeff: Thunder!
Ben: Absolutely! You bring the plastic wrap, I'll bring the alien costume...
Jeff: Thunder!
by Scharamouche May 19, 2010
Get the Trandofile mug.A word I use to describe trance that cannot go into the rave music, progressive trance, anthem trance, or classic trance in my playlists. It makes you want to dance *cough*horny*cough* at all times, but it's not dance music. It's somehow different.
I believe that Randy Katana and Mojado can be considered erot trance artists.
If I had some E, this erot trance would send me through the wall.
If I had some E, this erot trance would send me through the wall.
by kikkai // ft_m February 16, 2007
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